Liberty: A Nation of Aliens

"The experience of liberty does not give us a feeling of a common bond, aside from basic respect for political boundaries of individuals. Moreover, we wouldn't feel any sort of 'belongingness.' That was left behind in childhood, in the exceptional experience of being a child in a family group ? and it ended (or should have) when we reached an age of maturity (if we ever did). Instead, under liberty, and with liberation, we have a feeling of not having to belong ? to any one or any group." By the late Richard Rieben.